Gender – Paige Williams

    Gender Methodology

Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analyzing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women’s studies in the 1970’s, concerning women feminism, gender, and politics. According to www.daily.jstor.org, Gender is never isolated from other factors that determine someone’s position in the world, such as sexuality, race, class, ability, religion, region of origin, citizenship status, life experiences, and access to resources. Beyond studying gender as an identity category, the field is invested in illuminating the structure that naturalize, normalize, and discipline gender across historical and cultural contexts.

Gender Methodology is important because it helps us to understand men and women’s roles and position in society. It helps people to understand who does what and why and understand the power dynamics within the household.

Now with its moderately short life, orientation history affects the general investigation of history. The initially small field has gone through a number of phases since the 1960’s, when it first gained some acceptance. Each phase has its own challenges and outcomes. Each phase has its own challenges and outcomes, but they all have an effect on the history field in some way. Albeit a portion of the progressions to the investigation of history have been very self-evident, for example, expanded quantities of books on popular ladies or just the confirmation of more prominent quantities of ladies into the verifiable calling, different impacts are more unpretentious, despite the fact that they might be all the more politically pivotal eventually.

Gender historians began focusing on the expectations, aspirations, and status of everyday women by 1970. With the rise of the feminist movement in the 1980’s, women’s oppression and discrimination came to the forefront. These days, orientation history is more about outlining female offices and perceiving female accomplishments in a few fields that were generally overwhelmed by men.

Nancy F. Cott was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 8, 1945. She attended public schools in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania. She studied at Cornell University, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in 1967, then went on to Brandeis University where she obtained a master’s degree in American civilization in 1969. She got her doctorates in American civilization from Brandeis in 1974.  Nancy Cott is an American historian and professor who has taught at Yale and Harvard universities.specialized in gender topics in the United States in the 19th and the 20th centuries. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of American Historians, and was president of the Organization of American Historians in 2016- 2017.

Since 1999, Cott has contributed to the writing of amicus curiae briefs on same-sex marriage in a number of states. The federal Defense of Marriage Act has been the subject of these challenges. In the California case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, Cott testified as an expert witness. Cott has pointed out that Catholic ecclesiastical law did not strongly enforce the Christian tradition of monogamous marriage until around 1400 or 1500. This only applies to the time of Christ. Throughout history. Protestants, including the founders of the United States, have considered marriage to be primarily a civil matter pertaining to child support. With higher divorce rates, divergent perspectives on the role of marriage, and the legalization of interracial marriage, attitudes toward marriage continue to shift.

Since the late 20th century psychologists, philosophers, and social activists have investigated and debated the nature and evolution of gender identity. Gender identity is an individual’s self-conception as a man or woman or as a boy or girl or as some combination of man/boy and woman/girl or as someone fluctuating between man/boy and woman/girl or as someone outside those categories altogether. Gender identity is established at birth by genetic or other biological factors, according to so-called essentialists. Gender identity, or the manner in which gender identity is expressed, is ‘’socially constructed’, according to social constructivists. Not entirely set in stone by friendly and social impacts.

Because a supposedly innate gender identity can be expressed in various ways across cultures, social constructivism of the latter type is not necessarily incompatible with essentialism. There are some people who believe that sex and gender have little or no connection at all; among transsexual people organic sexual qualities are particular and unambiguous, yet the impacted individual relates to the orientation routinely connected with the other gender.

Since the late twentieth century the acknowledgment that many individuals have orientation personalities that are not customarily connected with their natural sex and that certain individuals have nonbinary orientation characters have expanded help for the general use in English and different dialects of unbiased pronouns instead of manly or female pronouns.

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www.daily.jstor.org

Gender Identity, www.britannica.com, May 5, 2023, written by the editors of Encyclopedia Britannica

Profile: Nancy F. Cott, www.thecrimson.com,  November 3, 2011, By Tara W. Merrigan